MDA Corp. is in the midst of a major transformation toward a more U.S.-focused company, starting with its chief executive, Howard L. Lance, formerly of Harris Corp. and a U.S. citizen, who assumed his post in M...

When we heard about the July 18 debris-generating event involving DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 commercial imaging satellite, we immediately launched our own investigation. Over the past year, Applied Defense Solu...

As MDA Corp. and Com Dev angle for business in the United States, Europe’s Airbus sees an opening in Canada
Airbus is looking to push into the Canada’s potentially lucrative space market, figuring the edge tha...

New fellowship offers aerospace internships
Brooke Owens Fellowship Program
A new fellowship program honoring a space industry professional who passed away earlier this year will offer internships and mentor...

The story sounds familiar. Companies in the space industry argue that government regulators are dragging their heels, delaying reviews of license applications or not acting on them at all. They attract the atte...

The original Earthrise photo taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft in 1968. Credit: NASAAs a U.S. senator from Michigan, the epicenter of the automotive world, I see striking similarities between human space ...

Four years ago, I wrote an in-depth report called “Going Blind” on how the United States was in danger of losing its ability to “see” in space, a capability known as space situational awareness (SSA). “Going bl...

Reliable and responsive space situational awareness (SSA) services are needed more than ever before, and the need is growing every day. This is for reasons that all are now very familiar with, namely the incre...

Launchers, launchers everywhere;
Demand is mostly flat.
But customers fear bottlenecks.
What should we make of that?SpaceX’s Sept. 1 pre-flight Falcon 9 failure and the five-month grounding of Russia’s ...